Yes you are right Steve.
Having been one of the first to ever connect to the internet on one of the first commodore 64s the internet in those days was quite harmless & the information quite genuine. That is when the 64 behaved itself. Now you have to be very wary & selective.
Agree all the information in books has to be taken with pinches of salt. As far as camouflage is concerned it is an bodies guess. Good fun though to delve.
For instance a scenario.
De Havilland to Sandersons paint. We need sky paint tomorrow the Ministry have changed colour.
Sandersons Sorry run out of that pigment we have not had a directive. But Hawkers sent their lorry yesterday & cleaned us out of sky. But we can probably let you have Sky Blue in 10 weeks time. But we have one sort of near that colour.
De Havilland. Ok
Sandersons. Or we have lots of silver.
De Havilland. Yes we have old stock here which is close we will use that. Thanks.
As far a directives are concerned from the ministry I bet the left hand did not know that the right hand man at the next desk was sending out different info. You would have to read all directives as taking one or two, as we have shown here, will give only very minor indication. What happened between ? Then they did not have facilities for copying the directives at the Aircraft Manufacturers. How many directives reached the man in charge. I bet Bomber Harris just chucked the lot in the basket.
From all accounts not much has changed at the Ministry of Defence nowadays. Although they seem to be on a notable peace mission destroying aircraft rather than building them.
Yak like the black. Seen lots of photos of these in the last day or so. Sinister. Looks impressive. An alternative is the yellow striped livery of the target Lysander. Yucks.
Laurie
Having been one of the first to ever connect to the internet on one of the first commodore 64s the internet in those days was quite harmless & the information quite genuine. That is when the 64 behaved itself. Now you have to be very wary & selective.
Agree all the information in books has to be taken with pinches of salt. As far as camouflage is concerned it is an bodies guess. Good fun though to delve.
For instance a scenario.
De Havilland to Sandersons paint. We need sky paint tomorrow the Ministry have changed colour.
Sandersons Sorry run out of that pigment we have not had a directive. But Hawkers sent their lorry yesterday & cleaned us out of sky. But we can probably let you have Sky Blue in 10 weeks time. But we have one sort of near that colour.
De Havilland. Ok
Sandersons. Or we have lots of silver.
De Havilland. Yes we have old stock here which is close we will use that. Thanks.
As far a directives are concerned from the ministry I bet the left hand did not know that the right hand man at the next desk was sending out different info. You would have to read all directives as taking one or two, as we have shown here, will give only very minor indication. What happened between ? Then they did not have facilities for copying the directives at the Aircraft Manufacturers. How many directives reached the man in charge. I bet Bomber Harris just chucked the lot in the basket.
From all accounts not much has changed at the Ministry of Defence nowadays. Although they seem to be on a notable peace mission destroying aircraft rather than building them.
Yak like the black. Seen lots of photos of these in the last day or so. Sinister. Looks impressive. An alternative is the yellow striped livery of the target Lysander. Yucks.
Laurie
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